Troy Gordon Corser (born 27 November 1971) is an Australian former professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the Superbike World Championship from 1992 to 2011 except for the 1997 season when he competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing. Corser won the Superbike World championship in and . He held the record for most World Superbike Championship race starts with 377 until 2023 when another Superbike legend Jonathan Rea overtook him.

Career Corser was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Having previously won the Australian and AMA Superbike Championship titles, and shone in a handful of wildcard rides in the Superbike World Championship (taking five podiums), he went to the series full-time in . He was classified 11th in WSBK for , hence his riding #11, which he used for many years. Pole for the first round showed his potential, although he only took one podium until his win at round 5 at the Salzburgring (partly due to collisions with Anthony Gobert and Piergorgio Bontempi at Monza). A strong remainder of the season (including a win at Laguna Seca, one of the few tracks on the schedule that he knew) saw him beat Aaron Slight to 2nd overall.

Corser won this title in , becoming the series' youngest champion, but 1997 was an unsuccessful and fragmented year in the 500cc World Championship, while teamed with Luca Cadalora on Yamaha YZR-500, Power Horse backed, team.

Back in WSBK for , Corser came close to retaking the title, helped by a double win at Laguna, the second race by a mere 0.005sec. He led the standings before the final round, took pole, but crashing and breaking ribs in a warm-up accident. For he was teamed with Carl Fogarty on Davide Tardozzi's team, the title going to Foggy with Corser again third. In and , he was on a factory Aprilia RSV-Mille. He would take the Aprilia to its first WSBK wins in 2000, and opened 2001 with a double victory in South Africa, but a double DNF at Monza scuppered his hopes of a championship challenge.

In , Corser joined Carl Fogarty's Petronas Superbike team, and spent the year developing the bike before racing it in and . He finished ninth in the 2004 championship, with a best result of third, but chose to leave the team after this.

In , Corser raced for the Alstare Suzuki Team on the GSX-R1000 which enabled him to regain his position as Superbike World Champion, winning the championship after a run of early-season victories - later in the season Chris Vermeulen and Noriyuki Haga were usually the men to beat.

Corser won two races early in , however a crash at Phillip Island, and a DNF at Silverstone enabled compatriot Troy Bayliss to gain the upper hand in the early stages of the title chase. A double non-finish at Assen with 4 rounds to go left him fifth in the championship, behind Bayliss, James Toseland, Noriyuki Haga and Andrew Pitt. He ultimately overhauled Pitt to finish fourth, through a double podium at the final round.

For , Corser left Suzuki to join Yamaha. However, he was outpaced by teammate Noriyuki Haga and finished fifth overall, with eight podiums but no wins. He remained with the team for , pipping Haga to finish as championship runner-up behind Bayliss.

For the 2009 WSBK season, Corser signed with BMW to ride alongside Ruben Xaus on BMW's new superbike. His best result in the first half of the season was an eighth place in the opener at Philip Island, although there were several other minor points finishes. Strong results later in the season saw him finish 13th overall.

Corser and Xaus continued with the team for 2010. Corser scored two fifth places at Assen, he took BMW's first ever WSBK podium in race two at Monza, aided by a first-lap collision between Xaus, Jonathan Rea and Toseland. He also took pole at Misano and had scored in every race until being forced to miss Brno following a practice crash.

Corser has been on pole at Philip Island and Valencia four times, equalling a championship record for a single track. Of the eight cases of a rider having 10 or more podium finishes at a particular circuit, Troy has four - 13 at Misano, 11 each at Laguna Seca and Philip Island, and ten at Donington Park.

Career statistics

Superbike World Championship

Races by year (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pts R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 1992 Yamaha SPA SPA GBR GBR GER GER BEL BEL SPA SPA AUT AUT ITA ITA MAL MAL JPN JPN NED NED ITA ITA AUS AUS NZL NZL 33rd 14 1994 Ducati GBR GBR GER GER ITA ITA SPA SPA AUT AUT INA INA JPN JPN NED NED SMR SMR EUR EUR AUS AUS 11th 90 1995 Ducati GER GER SMR SMR GBR GBR ITA ITA SPA SPA AUT AUT USA USA EUR EUR JPN JPN NED NED INA INA AUS AUS 2nd 339 1996 Ducati SMR SMR GBR GBR GER GER ITA ITA CZE CZE USA USA EUR EUR INA INA JPN JPN NED NED SPA SPA AUS AUS 1st 369 1998 Ducati AUS AUS GBR GBR ITA ITA SPA SPA GER GER SMR SMR RSA RSA USA USA EUR EUR AUT AUT NED NED JPN JPN 3rd 328.5 1999 Ducati RSA RSA AUS AUS GBR GBR SPA SPA ITA ITA GER GER SMR SMR USA USA EUR EUR AUT AUT NED NED GER GER JPN JPN 3rd 361 2000 Aprilia RSA RSA AUS AUS JPN JPN GBR GBR ITA ITA GER GER SMR SMR SPA SPA USA USA EUR EUR NED NED GER GER GBR GBR 3rd 310 2001 Aprilia SPA SPA RSA RSA AUS AUS JPN JPN ITA ITA GBR GBR GER GER SMR SMR USA USA EUR EUR GER GER NED NED ITA ITA 4th 284 2003 Petronas SPA SPA AUS AUS JPN JPN ITA ITA GER GER GBR GBR SMR SMR USA USA GBR GBR NED NED ITA ITA FRA FRA 12th 107 2004 Petronas SPA SPA AUS AUS SMR SMR ITA ITA GER GER GBR GBR USA USA EUR EUR NED NED ITA ITA FRA FRA 9th 146 2005 Suzuki QAT QAT AUS AUS SPA SPA ITA ITA EUR EUR SMR SMR CZE CZE GBR GBR NED NED GER GER ITA ITA FRA FRA 1st 433 2006 Suzuki QAT QAT AUS AUS SPA SPA ITA ITA EUR EUR SMR SMR CZE CZE GBR GBR NED NED GER GER ITA ITA FRA FRA 4th 254 2007 Yamaha QAT QAT AUS AUS EUR EUR SPA SPA NED NED ITA ITA GBR GBR SMR SMR CZE CZE GBR GBR GER GER ITA ITA FRA FRA 5th 296 2008 Yamaha QAT QAT AUS AUS SPA SPA NED NED ITA ITA USA USA GER GER SMR SMR CZE CZE GBR GBR EUR EUR ITA ITA FRA FRA POR POR 2nd 342 2009 BMW AUS AUS QAT QAT SPA SPA NED NED ITA ITA RSA RSA USA USA SMR SMR GBR GBR CZE CZE GER GER ITA ITA FRA FRA POR POR 13th 96 2010 BMW AUS AUS POR POR SPA SPA NED NED ITA ITA RSA RSA USA USA SMR SMR CZE CZE GBR GBR GER GER ITA ITA FRA FRA 11th 165 2011 BMW AUS AUS EUR EUR NED NED ITA ITA USA USA SMR SMR SPA SPA CZE CZE GBR GBR GER GER ITA ITA FRA FRA POR POR 15th 87

References

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